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California Wildfires: Live Fire Map

200
Active fires
74K
Acres
11
Under 50% contained
28
Typical air quality · worst 93 near San Ysidro
Current situation

California

Critical
Large fires (1K+)
6
New fires (48h)
74
Dispatch reports (24h)
97
Evac zones
25
NWS alerts
0
County emergency managers currently have 15 zones under Evacuation Orders and 10 under Evacuation Warnings across 5 counties including Kern, Los Angeles, Monterey. Every active zone is listed and shaded on the map below.
California currently has 200 active wildfires burning a combined 74,077 acres. 6 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, and 1 of those is still under 50% containment. The biggest is the Plaskett fire in Monterey County at 29,993 acres, 98% contained. 74 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 97 new fire reports in California in the last 24 hours (8 treated as wildfires, 3 smoke checks, 86 roadside reports via CHP), typically minutes after the first 911 call.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center forecasts elevated fire weather conditions over parts of the state tomorrow. Typical air quality across the state's 175 monitoring stations is good (AQI 28); the worst reading right now is AQI 93 (moderate) near San Ysidro.
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Bold outline: California boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Active evacuation zones in California

Live zone status from CAL FIRE / Cal OES, refreshed every 5 minutes; every zone is also shaded on the map above. If you are in a zone under an order, leave now and follow official instructions.

  • OrderMRY-D082Monterey County
  • OrderMRY-D090Monterey County
  • OrderMRY-F023-BMonterey County
  • OrderMRY-F015-CMonterey County
  • OrderMRY-F015-BMonterey County
  • OrderMRY-F029Monterey County

Zone codes are the official identifiers county emergency managers use in alerts. To check a specific address, use the fire-near-me search on the homepage.

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Enter any US or Canadian address or town for an instant risk report: nearby fires, wind, smoke, air quality, and evacuation alerts.

This season vs the last decade

29% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026390K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)1.3M acres

So far in 2026, 390K acres have burned in California, 29% of the 1.3M acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in California

Latest fire updates in California

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. Dome Fire · Grew 228 acres in 24 hours to 4,361 acres

    14 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Highland Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    14 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  3. Highland Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    14 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  4. Patton Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR72, CFR652, T73)

    14 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  5. Timber Fire · Mapped size revised down to 25,341 acres (from 25,513)

    14 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  6. Sandia Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR652, T73)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Dorado Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR652, T73)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Alamo Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (LAC20, LAC18)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  9. LAC-345537 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (LAC20)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  10. Lopez 2 Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (LAC18, LAC20)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  11. Victor Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (LAC20)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  12. Juniper Fire · 6 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N292NA, CUL561, T73)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

Wildfire history in California

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2020
Worst year · 4.7M acres
8,206
Fires / year · average
107K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
67K
Structures destroyed
286
Lives lost
$13.3B
Reported cost

From 3,233 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
4.7M
2.4M
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
486K
243K
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July and August account for 73% of the acreage burned in California in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
7.0K14K2014: 2.1K fires20142015: 2.6K fires2016: 1.7K fires20162017: 4.7K fires2018: 4.0K fires20182019: 5.9K fires2020: 10K fires20202021: 12K fires2022: 14K fires20222023: 14K fires2024: 14K fires20242025: 13K fires2026: 8.0K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, California averaged 507K acres burned and 13K fires per year. That is 69% down in acreage and 129% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Recent seasons have been quieter than the long-term norm.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in California? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in California

  • August Complex2020446 structures destroyed · 1 death1,032,648 acres
  • Dixie2021963,309 acres
  • Mendocino Complex2018280 structures destroyed · 1 death459,123 acres
  • Park2024429,603 acres
  • Scu Lightning Complex2020224 structures destroyed396,624 acres

Fires near a city in California

Los AngelesSan DiegoSan JoseSan FranciscoFresnoSacramentoBakersfieldRiversideSanta RosaReddingChicoSan BernardinoSanta BarbaraSan Luis ObispoPalm SpringsTruckeeSanta ClaritaMalibuParadiseSouth Lake Tahoe

Nearby states

Texas (111)Oregon (80)New Mexico (76)Oklahoma (62)Montana (59)Washington (40)